Cake Crumbs

Okay, so I made this fabulous yellow butter cake Sunday night...

Well, the _flavor_ is fabulous but the cake is crumbling all over the place. :( It's really delicious (5 ounces of butter and 4 ounces of heavy cream, egg yolks, flour, vanilla... are you drooling yet?) and I have this butter caramel sauce that I'm putting on top of it.... (now you are, aren't you!) :loveya:


But the thing is, I live by myself and if I ate this entire thing, I'm sure I'd put on about 15 pounnds this week :cry: - not to mention that it will stale before I could actually eat it all... and it's way too crumbly to offer to anyone (it's one of those mistakes, really it is, I hate to admit it but it is...) :blush:


Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone knows of anything you can do with cake crumbs. There ought to be _something_.....

Anybody got any good ideas?

i bet they would be good mixed with finely chooped nuts too.
wow, i'd want some of that cake, crumbly or not.

toast them a little, add a little more butter and cinnamon, maybe add some finely chopped nuts as you suggest...

Good idea, a topping for fruit or ice cream. Thanks!

you might want to coat yourself in the butter caramel sauce and then roll around in the cake crumbs.

I mean, you know, without any, uh, like, clothes. On.

...... to turn a cake crumb thread into a sex thread.

OLL = OldLeftieLetch

I can relate! :hi:

buttery, sticky, crumby world for us lovers/artists, my friend.

Getting that stuff out of my hair has taken all damn day ..........

;)

Un-uh. Nope... no... not me... not today...

I just had my house cleaned on Monday... nope... not going to traipse around the house covered in caramel sauce and cake crumbs.... nope... not this week.... maybe some other time....

(maybe not...) :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush:




But what an astounding idea!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

(recipe of Emeril's) that I made last weekend. It has quite a bit of rum and brandy in it and I think that is part of the problem--I didn't let the cake dry out before I started with the cheesecloth/alcohol. Anyway, it's falling to pieces and won't slice properly, so I'm thinking of rolling it into balls and coating it with chocolate. You might add a bit of rum or brandy to your crumbs, rolling it into balls, and dipping them in chocolate. Will let you know what happens with my "mess".

Rum balls are made with crumbled up cookies, aren't they? I've never made them but looked at some recipes a while back... I'll have to look into that... they could be "butter rum balls"! :rofl:



As for chocolate cover fruit cake balls... I'm having a hard time imagining ... I'm curious as to how they turn out. Chocolate covered nuts, cherries, pineapple ... all great... it just might work!

Good luck,

too generous with the brandy and got the cake too wet. The ones I rolled in coconut and cocoa powder seem to do the best, but the ones I dipped in chocolate are still not dry. BTW, the fruitcake is made from Emeril's Creole Christmas Fruit Cake recipe and uses dried fruits, almond paste, pecans, almonds and walnuts, bourbon and brandy and has a rich butter/egg batter. My mother would be proud of me for salvaging all those good ingredients. If the candy doesn't get firm enough to ship, I'll just take it to work and put it on the table in the lounge and it'll be gone in about 15 seconds, and someone will probably ask me to bring more.

If you try this with your cake crumbs, I'd advise adding the liquid just a teaspoon at a time.

Merry, merry!

I'm proud of you, too, for doing something good with all those ingredients. I'd love a taste, it reallys sounds like a luscious treat.

in coconut.

That could be an experiment worth tring - if the cake would consent to being cut into little cubes, or something. Hmmmm...

sounds delicious!

There's even one for making cookies from the crumbs.
http://www.earlenescakes.com/CakeCrumbRecipes.htm

dedicated to cake crumb recipes! Isn't the web wonderful, who would have ever thought of such a thing?
:shrug:


Some interesting ideas there, thank you!

recipes with a lot of layers. that way they'd be transformed into something you could share at work.

like maybe MORE butter than baked again - sort of how a graham cracker crumb crust works for cheesecake when you mix the crumbs with butter and a little sugar then bake it for 15 minutes or so before filling the curst, and it comes out all nice and toasty and stays together.

Hmmm... I wonder if cake crumbs would work for a cheesecake crust... I'm thinking a dulce de leche cheesecake on butter cake crumbs...

The cake is also great with a dark chocolate ganache topping... or strawberries... or any other kind of fruit... lots of options here.

As for a layer bar, 'course I'm thinking of something like a twixt bar type-thing, cookie, caramel and chocolate...

Thanks for the ideas.

I still remember the time, as a kid, when my Mom made either the basic Rombauer "1-egg cake" or the basic "4-egg cake," and as she described it, "The butter sank to the bottom." My sisters and I LOVED it -- of course, this was around the time of "1-2-3 Jello" if anybody remembers that (it made layers, probably an experiment gone wrong), and this rich buttery lower layer topped with a lighter cake was just the coolest thing, we thought.

But she never did it again. And we've often wondered: Just how DO you make the butter "sink to the bottom" of a cake? Do you know, housewolf? :shrug:

I was enthralled with it. Looking back, I could probably make something way better, but at the time it fascinated the heck out of me.

thank you for the memory.

It might happen if you mix everything together and then add the butter - especially if it's melted... it might sink to the bottom. If you didn't cream the butter and sugar enough you wouldn't have a good enough structure to hold the cake together so it might separate like that.... maybe. Or if the butter was too cold to mix into the sugar and flour evenly, so it might ooze to the bottom as it baked... I've never seen anything quite like that so I'm just guessing here. What ideas does Husb have, I'll be he knows.